“Defriending” in a polarized age: Political and racial homophily and tie dissolution

IF 2.9 2区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY
Anthony Paik, Mark C. Pachucki, Hsin Fei Tu
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Given increased political polarization and racial tension in the wake of the 2016 presidential election in the United States, this study examines dropped ties in personal networks at that time based on political and racial identities. We employed data from the 2015–2018 UCNets study (n = 1159), a longitudinal, representative data set of the San Francisco Bay Area. In late 2015 and early 2016 it generated personal network data via multiple name generators, eliciting alters whom respondents socialized with, confided in, received advice from, exchanged social support with, and found difficult. Using multilevel multinomial logit models, we then examined various reasons for tie dissolution immediately following the inauguration of Trump in early 2017. The results show that among young adults, politically dissimilar alters were more likely to be dropped due to disagreements. With respect to racial homophily, we found that interracial dyads were more likely to be dropped because of drifting apart or some other reason for both younger and older cohorts. Overall, there is some support for the notion that dropped ties due to political disagreements did occur immediately following the 2016 election, but the results highlight the continuing significance of race in personal networks.

两极分化时代的“去朋友化”:政治和种族同一性以及关系的解体
鉴于2016年美国总统大选后政治两极分化和种族紧张局势加剧,这项研究基于政治和种族身份考察了当时个人网络中关系的下降。我们采用了2015-2018年UCNets研究的数据(n=1159),这是一个旧金山湾区的纵向代表性数据集。在2015年末和2016年初,它通过多个名字生成器生成了个人网络数据,引发了受访者与谁交往、向谁倾诉、从谁那里获得建议、与谁交换社会支持以及发现困难的改变。然后,我们使用多级多项式logit模型,研究了2017年初特朗普就职后立即解散的各种原因。结果显示,在年轻人中,政治上不同的改变更有可能因分歧而被放弃。关于种族同质性,我们发现跨种族二人组更有可能因为年轻人和老年人的疏远或其他原因而被淘汰。总的来说,有一些人支持这样一种观点,即由于政治分歧而导致的关系中断确实发生在2016年大选之后,但选举结果突显了种族在个人网络中的持续重要性。
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Social Networks
Social Networks Multiple-
CiteScore
5.90
自引率
12.90%
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118
期刊介绍: Social Networks is an interdisciplinary and international quarterly. It provides a common forum for representatives of anthropology, sociology, history, social psychology, political science, human geography, biology, economics, communications science and other disciplines who share an interest in the study of the empirical structure of social relations and associations that may be expressed in network form. It publishes both theoretical and substantive papers. Critical reviews of major theoretical or methodological approaches using the notion of networks in the analysis of social behaviour are also included, as are reviews of recent books dealing with social networks and social structure.
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